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Hubert H. Humphrey

Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911 – January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. He was the Democratic Party's nominee in the 1968 presidential election, losing to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.

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Like many things in our national life, we miscalculated. We overestimated our ability to control events, which is one of the great dangers of a great power. Power tends to be a substitute for judgment and wisdom.

Events, Judgment, Power, Tends, Things

The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the streets.

Civil, Leadership, Rights, Take, White, Wisdom

Never answer a question from a farmer.

Answer, Answers, Farmer, Politician, Politics, Question

Our greatest songs are still unsung.

Greatest, Greatest Song, Song, Songs, Stills, Unsung

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Life, Names, Real, Rose, Shakespeare, Sweetness

There is a great deal of difference between living and surviving. You can survive in debauchery, even in sickness and despair. But you live with a spirit of vitality and a spirit of participation, of being wanted, and having something to contribute.

Deal, Debauchery, Despair, Differences, Having, Wisdom

What you do, what each of us does, has an effect on the country, the state, the nation, and the world.

Country, Doe, Effect, Nation, Wisdom, World

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

Compassion, Profile, Institutions, Humanness, Profiles, Idealism

The President is the peoples lobbyist.

Lobbyist, Lobbyists, Peoples, President

I do not feel that we should allow a shortage of funds to prevent cities from financing needed projects.

Allow, Cities, Projects, Should

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

Human, Liberty, President, Resources, Spirit

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Family, Friendship, Government, Hand, Impersonal

We will be remembered not for the power of our weapons but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare.

Compassion, Dedication, History, Human, Weapons

None of us would trade freedom of expression for the narrowness of the public censor. America is a free market for people who have something to say, and need not fear to say it.

America, Expression, Narrowness, People

My philosophy has always been that benefits should percolate up rather than trickle down.

Benefits, Down, Philosophy, Trickle, Wisdom

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.

Away, Inspirational, Left, Motivational, Positive, Take

More progress results from the violent execution of an imperfect plan than the perfection of a plan to violently execute.

Execution, Perfection, Plan, Progress, Violently

Peace of mind is another way of saying that you've learned how to love, that you have come to appreciate the importance of giving love in order to be worthy of receiving it.

Appreciate, Love, Order, Peace, Receiving, Worthy

Foreign policy is really domestic policy with its hat on.

Domestic, Foreign, Foreign Policy, Hate, Hats, Policy

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

Discrimination, Inadequacies, Liberalism, Mean, Poverty, Prejudice

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